Socialism the Active Utopia (Routledge Revivals)

Rather than contributing to the long-standing discussion about the characteristics of the society that socialism proposes to establish, this Routledge Revival, initially published in 1976, aims to explore the impact of the ‘living utopia’ of socialism on the development of modern society.

• It begins with an analysis of the role of utopia in general, and of the socialist utopia in particular;
• Bauman considers the opposition between ‘utopian’ and ‘scientific’ social thought;
• He...